Randogne (French pronunciation: [ʁɑ̃dɔɲ]) is a former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Randogne had an area, as of 2009[update], of 16.9 square kilometers (6.5 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 2.05 km2 (0.79 sq mi) or 12.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km2 (9.9 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and 5.07 km2 (1.96 sq mi) or 30.0% is unproductive land.

[4] The former municipality is located in the Sierre district, on the northern slope of the Rhone valley.

As of 2008[update], 59.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals (It is mainly due to the number of International students enrolled in the hospitality school in the village).

[7] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,767 or 59.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (238 or 8.0%) and English is the third (200 or 6.7%).

[7] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 46.24% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 841 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.1%.

[13] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 829 votes were cast, of which 53 or about 6.4% were invalid.

[7] There were 1,320 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.8% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 99 or 10.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 114 or 12.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 103 or 10.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 0.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 17 or 1.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 176 or 18.5% were in education and 343 or 36.0% were in health care.

[7] From the 2000 census[update], 1,659 or 56.0% were Roman Catholic, while 278 or 9.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.